Awesome to see this mail, Andre!

And remember that we do have the pages set up on MDN ready to be filled in also.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API

Once this is shipped, do you think we can find some time to start collaborating 
on these docs?

Chris Mills
   Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
   cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills



> On 31 Oct 2014, at 02:27, Marco Chen <mc...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Andre, 
> 
> It is a nice work and expect the voice recognition on B2G. 
> 
> Beside this final result, I am also interesting in the reason of you migrate 
> from SpeechRTC -> emscripten -> Web Speech API. 
> Could you also share what is the factor triggered these transition? Then that 
> can be the lesson learn for us. 
> 
> ex: SpeechRTC -> voice recognition can't be performed on local. 
> emscripten -> performance issue? or license issue? or ? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> Sincerely yours. 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Andre Natal" <ana...@gmail.com> 
> To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org, "Sandip Kamat" <ska...@mozilla.com>, 
> "Olli.Pettay" <opet...@mozilla.com> 
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 7:18:06 AM 
> Subject: Intent to ship: Web Speech API - Speech Recognition with 
> Pocketsphinx 
> 
> I've been researching speech recognition in Firefox for two years. First 
> SpeechRTC, then emscripten, and now Web Speech API with CMU pocketsphinx 
> [1] embedded in Gecko C++ layer, project that I had the luck to develop for 
> Google Summer of Code with the mentoring of Olli Pettay, Guilherme 
> Gonçalves, Steven Lee, Randell Jesup plus others and with the management of 
> Sandip Kamat. 
> 
> The implementation already works in B2G, Fennec and all FF desktop 
> versions, and the first language supported will be english. The API and 
> implementation are in conformity with W3C standard [2]. The preference to 
> enable it is: media.webspeech.service.default = pocketsphinx 
> 
> The required patches for achieve this are: 
> 
> - Import pocketsphinx sources in Gecko. Bug 1051146 [3] 
> - Embed english models. Bug 1065911 [4] 
> - Change SpeechGrammarList to store grammars inside SpeechGrammar objects. 
> Bug 1088336 [5] 
> - Creation of a SpeechRecognitionService for Pocketsphinx. Bug 1051148 [6] 
> 
> 
> Also, other important features that we don't have patches yet: 
> - Relax VAD strategy to be les strict and avoid stop in the middle of 
> speech when speaking low volume phonemes [7] 
> - Integrate or develop a grapheme to phoneme algorithm to realtime 
> generator when compiling grammars [8] 
> - Inlcude and build models for other languages [9] 
> - Continuous and wordspotting recognition [10] 
> 
> The wip repo is here [11] and this Air Mozilla video [12] plus this wiki 
> has more detailed info [13]. 
> 
> At this comment you can see a cpu usage on flame while recognition is 
> happening [14] 
> 
> I wish to hear your comments. 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Andre Natal 
> 
> [1] http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ 
> [2] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/speech-api/raw-file/tip/speechapi.html 
> [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051146 
> [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065911 
> [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088336 
> [6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051148 
> [7] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051604 
> [8] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051554 
> [9] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1065904 and 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051607 
> [10] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967896 
> [11] https://github.com/andrenatal/gecko-dev 
> [12] https://air.mozilla.org/mozilla-weekly-project-meeting-20141027/ (Jump 
> to 12:00) 
> [13] https://wiki.mozilla.org/SpeechRTC_-_Speech_enabling_the_open_web 
> [14] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1051148#c14 
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